subject: Purchase Tickets For Super Bowl [print this page] If you're planning to purchase tickets for the super bowl, you have my sincere adulation and my sincere condolences. The cost of a ticket officially exceeded $1,000 dollars last year and is only expected to rise this year. Of course, that is nothing compared to an actual cost for a ticket.
Unless you are incredibly lucky or incredibly well connected, you should not expect to be able to purchase a ticket directly from the National Football League. Instead, be prepared to shell out the big bucks to a ticket broker like Stub Hub.
I do not recommend however that you try and buy tickets from scalpers since you could easily get scammed. Those who attempt to enter with forged tickets, even if they did not know it, are subject to ejection from the park and possible arrest.
The trouble really arises because football's big day is just that - a day.
Unlike baseball, where you have seven games that you could potentially attend (and for that matter, during the course of a season, 162 games per team as opposed to 17), this is a one day deal and it means that only the most devoted fans and or those who have obscene amounts of money will ever be able to claim that they attended the Super Bowl since only they could possibly find the money to purchase tickets for the Superbowl.
Then again, if the situation this year looks anything like what we had last year, fans may be in for a bit of relief (relief of course being a relative term). The New York Daily News reported last year, just a few weeks before the game that tickets for the super bowl were still available on Stub Hub for a cost of just $1500-$2000.
This was because of the depressed economy and the relatively ho hum teams who were playing in that game. By comparison, in most years, if tickets are available at all for the games, they will cost the same as a decent used car and sometimes can rival the cost of a brand new car. Especially in today's economy that means that the Superbowl has been relegated to being the province of the rich rather than that of every day Joe.
Of course, if you had wanted to purchase tickets for the first Superbowl, then you would have been able to afford it easily, even adjusted for inflation, since the first one, held at the Los Angeles Coliseum cost just $6, $10 and $12. That works out to around $38, $64 and $76 respectively, adjusted for inflation.
by: Richard Cunningham
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